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Senior Producer at AJE Digital. Gentleman explorer and noted raconteur. Currently banned in Israel. Bylines in: lots of stuff.

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Joined February 2009
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Deputy Chairman of the Central Elections Committee: "The Knesset will be sworn in on time. I suggest that Likud stop with all the claims, they lost the elections, they lost 15 seats, this is not a reason to cancel the elections"
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🚨 כעת - מפגינים מול ביתו של יו"ר ישר, גדי אייזנקוט. קוראים להקמת ממשלה יהודית-ערבית
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Money can’t buy you love.
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מתוך ראיון שלי עם AJ+
Iranian Jewish Israeli activist, Orly Noy, wants Netanyahu out. But Israel is shutting out voices like hers. #Israel #IsraeliGovernment #Elections #IsraeliOccupation #Netanyahu #BenGvir #Palestinians
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EXCL: Nigel Farage’s newest billionaire donor was in business with a powerful Iranian religious foundation under the authority of the country’s supreme leader, raising questions about his past dealings with the hardline republic. Hossein Ghandehari, also called Sasan, was little known in the UK until he pledged to give millions to Reform UK this summer and donated £50,000 to Farage to cover the cost of two passes for the Davos World Economic Forum. Cracking story from @rowenamason theguardian.com/politics/202…
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The collapse in violent crime over three decades has been one of the most striking developments of my lifetime. News is about what’s going wrong, and rightly so. But the bigger picture also matters From today’s figures:-
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Fake Accounts Used Against Iran's Regime Now Amplify Netanyahu's Attacks on Rivals in Election Campaign haaretz.com/israel-news/secu… haaretz.com/israel-news/secu…
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"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.
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Son of Paul Marshall, owner of GB News. Ex-Mumford & Sons member that was ejected from the band for his far-right views. Context ...
"(Burnham) says he doesn't want to be divisive and yet he brings up the most divisive issue of the last 10 years" Ex-Mumford & Sons member turned podcaster Winston Marshall says Andy Burnham's stance on Brexit won't be popular with "Red Wall" voters. #Newsnight
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The sad demise of @BBCNewsnight It keeps getting worse. It won’t be long before they are bringing in random people off the streets to populate the guest list.
"(Burnham) says he doesn't want to be divisive and yet he brings up the most divisive issue of the last 10 years" Ex-Mumford & Sons member turned podcaster Winston Marshall says Andy Burnham's stance on Brexit won't be popular with "Red Wall" voters. #Newsnight
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20 years ago 'Community Wealth Building' was coined by @DemocracyCollab to describe how we can build a new and fair economic model challenging decades of systemic failure. Twenty years on from Cleveland, Ohio to Preston, Scotland to Amsterdam, Canada to St Louis, South Korea to Ireland and New Zealand to East Poland, Community Wealth Building has become a fast growing and exciting movement to build the democratic economy. This new compendium of essays on the achievements of Community Wealth Building across the globe highlights progress with many brilliant contributions. I have been privileged to be involved for many years and have contributed a chapter on the #PrestonModel from Page 164. Read or download the full anthology: democracycollaborative.org/w…
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Replying to @ZoeJardiniere
Guy who "abhors racism" thinks Pakistani Britons have poisoned the nation with their alien medieval culture nitter.cf/AdamBienkov/status/187…
There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK. For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
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Right-wing thugs trying to bust into @ListJoint‘s headquarters in Tel-Aviv, where @Mesarvot_ is screening a film about young refusers. I‘m still here inside. The thugs are outside shouting with megaphones. These men are on Itamar Ben-Gvir‘s payroll. They are part of the regime.
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He was the courageous Israeli who stood against genocide. Across the world, the Jewish tradition of fighting injustice is growing stronger. Here's to many more Ori Goldbergs. May his memory be a blessing.
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Warning: Distressing and graphic language An undercover investigation by ITV Exposure into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has found multiple elected councillors and party candidates expressing racist views and using offensive language. ITV has obtained secretly recorded footage showing Reform officials from across England and Wales using violent, racist and sexist language. Councillors Alan Feeney, Chris Whelan and Jamie Campbell did not reply to our request for comment. Councillors Feeney and Whelan have since resigned from Reform UK. In a statement shared with ITV News, Reform UK said: "Where members, activists and councillors have clearly behaved inappropriately, investigations have commenced. In some cases, there have been suspensions and due process must be followed." "Reform UK has improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time, a handful of individuals who do not share our values will initially make it through vetting. This is the same for all organisations."
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This is EXACTLY* what Nigel Farage said about giving the Chagos Islands to Trump. Anyone trying to deny this, is literally flying in the face of reality — 1984-style. He said he'd trade them in return for Trump's silence on the Falklands. *two edits for brevity
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Thread 🧵 A frequent contributor to Al Jazeera, Ori Goldberg has died at the age of 50 after a long battle with colon cancer. Here is some of his best work.
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This guy utterly dismantles the populist politics of Reform and Restore in 90 seconds. It’s actually quite beautiful. Take decades of deep-rooted problems in Britain and convince people that a relatively tiny proportion of the population is responsible for all of them. Housing, the NHS, crime. Blame illegal migrants for everything. Suddenly, you don’t need credible solutions to the housing crisis, NHS waiting lists or crime. You just need increasingly extreme policies on immigration. And by the time people realise you never had meaningful answers to the vast majority of Britain’s problems, you’re already in power, handing out tax cuts to your donors.
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